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Jeremy FreedmanSaturday AfternoonWhen it’s late on a Saturdayafternoon in winter,and I’m on European time again,and snow insists on falling like the ash that fellon provinces, towns, citieswhose names...
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Carol StetserfromMap QuestCarol Stetser celebrates more than 30 years of making visual poetry.She still loves making collages with paper, scissors, and gluethe old fashioned way. previous...
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Johannes S. H. Bjergfrom: "On Separation from the World" a chapter in:Christian Retirement - or Spiritual Exercises for the Heart, anon., London 1849123Johannes S.H. Bjerg: Born 1957. A Dane writing in...
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J. D. Nelsona blared gestaltI garglew penniesbeendone               wrongnot now(a...
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Bob Hemanfrom INFORMATIONINFORMATION Each part distinct but never more than a part. The grid a kind of logic that adds both position and proportion. Separate captions not understood to be feasible. The...
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Francesco Levato[ from kaustos‘burnt’ (from kaiein‘to burn’) ]Critical Statement“[ from kaustos‘burnt’ (from kaiein‘to burn’) ]” sequence 2.0bx is a hybrid work consisting of procedurally constructed...
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Mark StaniforthsonnetMark Staniforth is a writer and journalist from North Yorkshire, UK. He is currently completing his Creative Writing MA at Teesside University.http://staniforthmark.wordpress.com/...
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Lakey ComessCat's cradle of violent deceit1Any testimonial to surveillance should include profile of watcher, amorphous, 'troubled'. Tell me, were you looking, too, or only engaging in aroused...
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Ong Sher LiA Cage Half-TributeThe playeron the caseHe[ / ]the instrumentHis fingers are at the ready&“He begins to play”Ong Sher Li is a recent graduate from Nanyang Technological University. In...
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Kit KennedyWITHOUT LIGHT what did she see?& she & timemovedan inchor two& those tulipsso openedsimply closedinon dyingfrom CRACKS The window offers no impediment nor instruction on how...
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Ken BoltonSeptember PoemsPostcards from the Adriatic and LondonSeptember, 2007ENTER previous page     contents     next page
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Ken Bolton / September Poems / 1.1 (Postcard home)for Julie, Michael, Teri, MelentieSend lots of postcardsthe note said, at work on my last day. I don’t knowwho wrote it. Julie or Teri. A Saturday.I...
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Ken Bolton / September Poems / 2.2. Geography choppy weather this morningthe water on permanent cycleof squash, rinse, splash(& a noise that sounds like “squulp”)—a fresh wind. Whether todo another...
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Ken Bolton / September Poems / 3.3 (The rooftop apartment) from HvarHere I am on the balconywriting this line—thefirst page of a school exercise book. Am I‘not very goodat holidays’? Will I dienot...
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Ken Bolton / September Poems / 4.4 The palmThe burst of fronds—that is its tinyhead high up in the airhigher, from here,than the church tower(‘higher’ even thanthe mountain, agreen rugged shape—green...
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Ken Bolton / September Poems / 5.5 (Here)Arabia—‘the South’—The Mediterranean—all of these.This is the Adriatic—tho not far from Italy, the South etcetera.The Catholic, Croatian architecturesuggests...
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Ken Bolton / September Poems / 6.6 (Let me)Fabulous & homely—on the balcony ledgein modelling clayAnna’s red stagtwo inches tallsits & leans slightlyas if drunkagainst a tiny classicalhead, the...
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Ken Bolton / September Poems / 7.7  (‘Naphtha’)Bullwinkle—& classicism,gravity & theinane. Asthe poet said“I am ashamedof my century—but I have to laugh”8  (Pronto)The phone...
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Ken Bolton / September Poems / 8.9 ViewsIt is one of the two vistas:of tiled roofs, (many aged, discoloured,sway-backed,forming a soup-pea, variegated line:a row of older house roofs— against the newer...
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Ken Bolton / September Poems / 9.11 (Two Blues)I leave a note that says “I’m having coffee at Mr Surly’s”& go there—where this poem‘finds’ mestaring at a seaI sometimes refer toas the Aegean,tho in...
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